Beastie Boys "Intergalactic" Grand Royal / Capitol Records CDCL803 1998 (17:13)
Intergalactic (Album Version) (3:33)
Hail Sagan (Special K) (4:06)
Intergalactic (Prisoners of Technology/TMS 1 Re-mix) (5:47)
Intergalactic (Fuzzy Logic Re-mix) (3:47)
All songs written and produced by Beastie Boys/Mario Caldato, Jr.
Overall impression: good. This is the first single from the new album, "Hello Nasty". The first track is the album version, you've already heard/seen it ... old school electro hiphop. "Hail Sagan" is a throwaway track, basically the boys messing about with vocal effects, keyboard and drum machines. The last two tracks, the re-mixes, are great. The Prisoners re-mix uses the robotic chorus voice of the original to great effect, removes most of the lyrics, adds several new samples, and gives the song a bit of drum 'n bass feel. The last re-mix by Fuzzy Logic is the best, probably better than the album version. Phat, up-tempo with lots of cool vocal samples. Worth the $10.99? Probably not, but I do like that Fuzzy Logic re-mix quite a bit. Love the cover too ... giant, Godzilla-like rampaging Hamster!